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Valve removes free horror game from Steam after players discover it contains malware that steals your data (www.pcguide.com)
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[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

This appears to have originally been published as a totally different non-malware game. Either the original dev got their account taken over or turned heel, because the entire game was replaced with the malware game as an update to an existing game rather than a new published game.

I'm only speculating as I don't know much about the Steam publishing process, but I wonder if that helped the malware sneak past more rigorous checks which would happen on a totally-new upload.